After touring the festivals this summer, the master of shock rock Alice Cooper once again took over the Zénith in Paris for a triumphant show.
Among the rockstars still active, Alice Cooper always ranks among the most notable. The inexorable advance of time does not seem to have any influence on his work or his performances. Indeed, with a group as united as it is solid, he manages to maintain the youthful essence of certain titles which nevertheless go back half a century, like “I'm Eighteen” or “No More Mr Nice Guy”.
Remaining in the old school while maintaining balance, Vincent Furnier and his minions follow the timeless ones such as “Poison” or “Be My Lover”, bring out of the closet nuggets such as “Lock Me Up” or “Welcome to my Nightmare”, while dodging false notes.
Whether it's guitarist Nita Strauss or drummer Glen Sobel, everyone gets their minutes of fame, in an intelligently put together show.
Of course, Alice Cooper keeps his taste for staging. The boa is out on the aptly named “Snakebite”, the required guillotine is still present after “Killer”, without forgetting the Frankenstein creature who comes to visit the group during the eponymous track. The concert is also sprinkled with confetti and bathed in quality lighting. Faced with such a performance, the audience is jubilant and asks for more, with an hour and a half of hard rock that is both old school and timeless, with lots of anthemic choruses and powerful riffs. One more success for a complete artist in full mastery of his art.
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Setlist:
- Lock Me Up
- Welcome to the Show
- No More Mr. Nice Guy
- I'm Eighteen
- Under My Wheels
- Bed of Nails
- Billion Dollar Babies
- Snakebite
- Be My Lover
- Lost in America
- Hey Stoopid
- Drum solo
- Welcome to My Nightmare
- Cold Ethyl
- Go to Hell
- Poison
- Feed My Frankenstein
- Guitar solo
- Black Widow Jam
- Ballad of Dwight Fry
- Killer
- I Love the Dead
- Elected
- School's Out / Another Brick in the Wall pt.2